When Hollywood Was Right : How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521199182
ISBN-13
9780521199186
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 21st, 2013
Print length
235 Pages
Weight
472 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 22.90 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Films, cinemaHistory of the Americas
Ksh 4,350.00
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This book rediscovers how there once was a Hollywood Right. Using extensive new archival material, Donald Critchlow reveals how Hollywood Republicans remade America by successfully backing such candidates as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George Murphy. Readers will never think about Hollywood politics again in the same way.
Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a factionalized Republican Party. Coming together were stars such as John Wayne, Robert Taylor, George Murphy and many others, who joined studio heads Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B. Mayer, Walt Disney and Jack Warner to rebuild the Republican Party. They found support among a large group of business leaders who poured money and skills into this effort, which paid off with the election of George Murphy to the US Senate and of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to the highest office in the nation. This is an exciting story based on extensive new research that will forever change how we think of Hollywood politics.
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